Reading some of the commentary you would think that there is some special Code provision for hedge fund managers.

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Led by Code Pink founder and California Democratic fund-raiser Jodie Evans, the demonstrators were not welcomed by Egyptian authorities.

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An Exceptional Medicines Fund would "end the scandal of post code rationing".

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Yet before the SEC changed the law last year, for almost thirty years no mutual fund company would provide a copy of its code to investors when asked.

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Britain has a tough new stewardship code for institutional investors, and the European Fund and Asset Management Association has just published similar rules.

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Mr Obama has let one former tax-avoider through: Tim Geithner, the new treasury secretary, who failed to pay self-employment taxes when he was a consultant for the International Monetary Fund. (Foes of America's absurdly complicated tax code were delighted to note that even a reputedly brilliant economic mind failed to comply with it.) But with the financial and economic crisis raging, Mr Geithner appeared simply too important to lose.

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The company said that it may not have enough cash to fund operations, may seek protection from creditors under the U.S. bankruptcy code.

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Within large mutual fund organizations, only in- house legal counsel is in a position to monitor manager personal trading compliance with the code of ethics.

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